I.Metshin: "Our project has found fertile ground in which to develop, we will continue this important work"

(KZN.RU, November 19, Alena Miroshnichenko). As the practice, the richer the state is, the more charitable foundations are in it. Kazan is in the beginning of this way, but "we hope that more and more kind people will participate in it, and charity, patronage of arts and mutual assistance will become normal for each of us", - Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, shared with his opinion on today's Business Monday.

Traditionally at the end of November the forum “Kind Kazan" is held in the capital city of Tatarstan. This year will be no exception. As Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Committee on Youth Affairs, told that the third All-Russian forum "Kind Kazan. Charity: the experience of regions" was held in Kazan City Hall on November 29 and 30. This event, the first of its kind, will bring together the chiefs, employees and the volunteer workers of the non-profit organizations from all country to exchange the experience of charity advancing in different regions.

We would note that last year the forum collected more than 300 participants from 22 Russian cities. The representatives of funds and non-profit organizations, federal experts, the authority representative, business and mass media were among them. Then one of the key speakers was Ilia Chukalin, the director of the Fund of presidential grants, who noted the high positions of the RT in the regions-winners rating of the presidential grants competition.

"We created the project "Kind Kazan" as a city platform where the charitable organizations could exchange their experience, talk of interaction and listen to the invited specialists' opinion. But the first forum showed that our platform was interesting not only to the Kazan citizens, but also to many experts from the charitable funds of Russia. And Ilia Chukalin's participation took the forum to a whole new level of the charitable funds interaction with centre and allowed to get a serious financial support for the first time. Our project has found fertile ground in which to develop, we will continue this important work“, - the Mayor of Kazan noted.

Any interested person can become the participant of the forum who shares ideas of kind and charity. The registration is available on the site till November 25. More than 200 requests has been already received.